“I was Vinnetou’s sister,” the French actress Marie Versini, who became famous in the role of Nsho-chi in the 1960s, called her biography. Today it celebrates its 80th birthday. She was born on August 10, 1940 in Paris, where her family came from Corsica.
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Already at the age of 17, she became a member of the important Comédie-Française Theater. In 1963, she won an audition for the role of Apačka Nšo-chi in the film Vinnetou, which ensured her great fame, followed by a few other Mayans. In the 70’s and 80’s she played mainly on television. She ended up in 1984 to take care of her 22-year-old husband, screenwriter and director Pierre Viallet; he died at the age of 94 in 2013. That year she remembered her famous role at the Trutnov festival, alongside Vinnetou – Pierre Brice († 86). She spent last birthday on the hospital, suffering several fractures in the fall.
